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So recently I’ve gone to see two movies in theaters the Movie 9 and the movie District 9 now I liked both movies overall and I really liked District 9 but I’m not writing today about the movies or even a review of the movies themselves. The part I want to discuss is the human element in both of these movies. Some spoilers below.

In 9 they illustrate how destructive we are by creating a machine that can create war machines, with a scientist using himself to create other creates basically to fight and kill the machine that man created. So the entire world is in shambles without any hope of survival even with the destruction of the machine’s by the so called remaining humanity within the nine. Showing that our lack of concern for others but creating better war machines will somehow be beneficial yet in reality is our let down, oh the quest for power.

In District 9 it’s shot as a documentary style of aliens landing on our planet not by choice, or with any hostility towards us but by more or less an accident. The first thing we do is not help them but quarantine them and put the aliens in sub par living conditions call them prwns (i think that is how it’s spelt) which in the movie is a derogatory term and basically treat them like crap. So the one guy involved with them has an accident is now being turned into a prwn and the rest of the movie is about him doing everything he can in the most selfish of methods that could be chosen at any given point, to get himself fixed. He even teams up with one of the prwns for help who says he can fix him and from that point on that’s all this human cares about getting fixed, screw everything else. In the end he does do one act of good to actually help but everything was for his own selfish gain, without any care for the aliens or anything or anyone else.

I really wonder how accurate these movies are about the human element and how we truly treat each other, or how we would treat another life form if it did come to this planet. It’s almost like Hollywood is saying everyone look in the mirror your destroying everything and your self centric attitudes will only lead to self annihilation. However it does make great block busters and i hope they do a sequel to District 9 when the aliens return to help out their own kind from our hospitality that humanity seems to offer.

Just something to think about and maybe someday the world will realize this and things will turn around.

General 9, district 9, movies, theatre

The recent attacks only affected those of us who hadn’t updated if we had we would have been safe from this attack. Here is the direct Article from WordPress themselves.

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

General bugs, fix, security, wordpress

Here comes another movie from Micheal Moore and I think the trailer says it all. If it’s half as good as sicko i’ll be watching it but going after the ceo’s who caused all of the problems and were given everything over and over again. I look forward to it and here is the link to the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRRemRXmy9g

General micheal moore, movie